Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-26
sary. Mrs. Il. Thane Miller, of Cincinna-
Ii; treasurer, Mrs. r. II! Donnelly, of
Chicago, and twenty.six vice-prosidents.
DAKOTA CONCENTRATIONS.

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Jamestown to bore for natural gas.
Early soBR grain looks well in Hamlin
county. A soaking rain fell Saturday
night.
The First-day Adyentiss are holding
a tent meeting at Oakwooi lake in Kings
bury county.
J.B. McHugh, OF Enron, has been
appointed mail agent between Milbank
and Mitchell.
The A. o. q. w. lodge are making
preparations to build a two story build
ing at Iroquois.
The president has appointed John T.
Bertrand, ir. postmaster at Canton, vice
]. w. Hewitt, resigned.
Postmasters appointed: Edgels, Min
ME Lee; LonRland, J.. O. Lonaland
Neche, p. O. Donovan.
Kingsbury county farsders are organ
izing a shipping association to buy and
ship grain, live stock etc.
One hundred aud t~wenty-fonr addi-
tional land patents were received at the
Aberdeen land Office Friday.
Rev. Charles Potter, the new rector of
Grace Episcopal church, OF Huron ar
rived from Middleton, Conn, Tuesday
Huron had q half an inch of rain Sat
urday and two good showers Sunday
and Monday. Crop prospects are i'm
proved.
At q horse trade in Plankinton, one
horse changed ownership fifteen times
and then wound up in the hands of the
sheriff.
ID. L. Coleman, Milbank station
agent, and A. Ell, Lewis. editor of the
REVIEW. mad q street scrap we certain
articles puDiianed by Lewis Saturday.
Pensions granted: Original, Il. A.
Douglas, Webster. Increase, b. T..
Pricer, Troy; FL. 1alew, Salem. Re-
issued, O. FL. Skies, Lisbon; P. j. Eel.
son, Raymond.
Early sown grain in Kingsbury ooun-
ty looks fine and gives promise of an
abundant harvest. That soWn later has
been kept back by the dry weather. but
will come on all right.
The Arlington creamery, owned and
operated by a stock company, com
menced business this week. IT is ex-
pected that between four and five hum
dred COWS will be secured.
Murray Bros. who have the contract to
grade thirty miles OF the Fremont, Elk
horn & Missouri Valley road bed west of
Rapid City, have arrived at Rapid City,
and will begin work at once.
Tuesday at De Smet the dry goods
firm OLE. M. Hartshorn 6 Son made an
assignment to W. ii, Ruth. Liabilities
not known. The firm expects TO satisfy
all claims within o few weeks.
Rapid Oity's board of trade has 40
oerttea the proposition made by Il. b.
Chapman, q we'll known and heavy capt.
talist of Omaha, to build q narrow guage
road from that city norshwestwardly.
Philip IrVinson's entry OF the south
east quarter Of section 10, township lot,
range 81, Mitchell (Dakota) land dis
triot, has been cancelled by order OF the
secretary of the interior. Louis Gott-
helf contested.
Henry @. Reese. OF Huron, was found
IN q box car ct Salem Tuesday morning
crushed to death by lumber, with which
the car WAS loaded. He left Huron Mon
day in search OF work, and has a wife
and six children in almost destitute cir
cumstances.
b contract for putting in the works
g The Grand Forks National gas COM
pany was let Tuesday to the Chicago
National gas light and fuel company.
The capacity of the works is to be $4,000
cubic feet every t%wenty-fonr hours. The
Springer system has been adopted.
The greatest single weeks real estate
transaction v recorded in Grand
Forks we're contaminated with the week
ending at noon Tuesday, when the
Northern Pacific paid $50, 900 for right
of way through the city, making the
total transfers for the week $108, $50.
Eight miles north OF B~ridgewater Sat-
urday, 9 storm was severe and wrecked,
the barn and unroofed the house Of J..
o. Gipson, and demolished She barn of
William Feske and also damaged the
school house In that n~eighborhood.
MIR. Fsske's barn WAS insured for $500
against s.orsas.
Work has been commenced on the
kedfield creamery building, the founda-
ton laid and the t;.lber purchased. The
building will be two and hall stories
high, strongly built and will be equipped
with the most modern and improved
machinery. I. ~lll cost when finished.
something over 5000.
The Minneapolis HoEr sad elevator firm
OF Christian SEQ, will increase their D.-
kota elevator system by Immediately
erecting twenty or thirty elevators on the
Northern Pacific and branches. The
elevators will be of abont 10000 bushels
capacity. They will be completed in
time for the fall crop.
The rain OF Saturday night passed
around Cass county generally, but along
the Sheyenne and Maple rivers, in Cass
countyATuesday, the rain was heavy and
a fair amount followed up She Red river.
These showers will assist greatly in
bringing up the grain to the excellent
average of the pest year.
DR.. Langdon, deputy territorial yeteri-
nary surgeon, hes ISSUED an order re-
curing compliance with the law that all